Patrick Apiou is a Philosophy Teacher at the International School of Boston. He received his Master Degree in Philosophy from University of Nantes, France in 1990 on the “Equal opportunities and freedom in the democratic society according to Tocqueville second Democracy in America”. He received his Master Degree in History Read more…
Patrick Autréaux is a French writer who has held appointments as a writer-in-residence at Boston University and a visiting scholar at MIT. He is the author of eight novels, all published by Gallimard and Verdier. His most recent one was short-listed for the 2019 Décembre and Femina prizes. While studying Read more…
Nancy Bauer is Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. She specializes in feminist philosophy, metaphilosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of film, with a special interest in the role that philosophy plays in everyday human life. She is the Read more…
Latifa Bentiri is a French diplomat, currently serving as Cultural Attaché at the Consulate General of France in Boston. Prior to her assignment in Boston, she served as a legal advisor as well as a human rights advisor at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. Trained as a Read more…
Claire Boine is a Research Scholar at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her research is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Focusing on American gun culture, she explores the social identity of gun owners and shared values between gun owners and non gun owners. Read more…
Andrew Brandel teaches social and anthropological theory in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. He is currently completing work on an ethnographic manuscript about migration and literature in Berlin, Germany, and has published articles on romanticism, ordinary language philosophy, and the pressure to narrativity. He is Read more…
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (born 1971 in Tunis) is a French philosopher and writer. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1991. He obtained the agrégation in mathematics in 1995 and wrote a philosophy thesis under the direction of Jean-Michel Salanskis in 1999. From 2001 to 2011, he was chargé de recherche Read more…
A Paris native, Stanislas received his undergraduate degree in Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, and his Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Focusing his practice around Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, he believes in the necessary integration of both disciplines to change Read more…
Bo-Mi Choi is a teacher and multi-media producer. An intellectual historian by training, she taught continental philosophy and critical theory on the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and worked as Senior Producer on the Vienna Project at Harvard University. She is a Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School Read more…
Victorien Coquery teaches French and Ancient literature at the International School of Boston. While studying at the École Normale Supérieure (2010-2015), he obtained a bachelor’s degree in history and history of art at University Paris Sorbonne. He wrote his master’s thesis upon “The philosophy of colours in Lucretia’s De rerum natura” Read more…
Mona El Khoury is Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature and Culture at Tufts University. She works and teaches on the interaction of literature, history, and memory; philosophy, politics, and postcolonial theory; migrations and ecocriticism. Recent publications include Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture. Archiving Postcolonial Minorities (Lexington Books, “After the Empire,” Read more…
David Ferry’s most recent book is a translation of Virgil’s Aeneid (University of Chicago, 2017). Bewilderment, New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago, 2012) won the National Book Award. He had published six books in all, including a critical work called The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth’s Major Read more…
Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard UniversityArnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyFaculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University In 2011, William Friedman became the eighth director of the Arnold Arboretum in its nearly 150-year history, as well as the Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Read more…
Mark Glickman, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, is Senior Lecturer on Statistics at the Harvard University Department of Statistics, and Senior Statistician at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, a Veterans Administration Center of Innovation. His research interests are primarily in the areas of statistical models Read more…
After receiving a PhD in History from the University of La Sorbonne in 2018, Liv Grjebine is doing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Science at Harvard University. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (CNRS, ENS, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne). Her areas of specialization center Read more…
Judith Gurewich is the publisher of Other Press, a position she has held since 2002. Under her leadership, Other Press has become a highly respected and award-winning publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction, including titles such as Hurry Down Sunshine, The Glass Room, and The Unit. Born in Canada and Read more…
Dicki Johnson Macy (Duncan Dance), BC-DMT, M.Ed., L.M.H.C., IDMA, director of the “Boston Children’s Foundation” is the creator and founder of Rainbowdance. For the past 30 years, in her career as a dance therapist, she has created international healing rituals for children isolated by developmental and neurological disorders and exposure Read more…
David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy since ’91. Best known for his work on the science, technology, and public policy of solar geoengineering, David led the development of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program. He took first prize in Canada’s national physics Read more…
Robin Kelsey is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in art history from Harvard and a JD from Yale Law School and has practiced law in California. A Read more…
Lawrence D. Kritzman is the Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has written works on, edited works on, or given lectures on Barthes, Foucault, Kristeva, Sartre, Camus, Malraux, Derrida, Montaigne, de Beauvoir, and others, Read more…
Jeffrey Krupa is a PhD candidate in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works on experiments that attempt to reveal the nature of dark matter—a mysterious substance comprising most of the universe’s mass—using data collected at the Large Hadron Collider. He’s interested in the intersections of science, technology, Read more…
Zoie Lafis serves as Executive Director at the Center for Hellenic Studies. She develops exhibitions at the CHS Washington campus to explore material culture as a means of expression and to promote the value of creative interpretations of the ancient world. Her interests include visual and performing arts, which Zoie Read more…
Jessica Lau is a ceramic artist working out of Somerville, MA and Visual Art specialist for Wellesley Middle and High School. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University.
David Lebow is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. He is a political theorist and lawyer. He is primarily interested in twentieth-century political thought, the Frankfurt School, and American legal history. His most recent publication, ‘Trumpism and the Dialectic of Neoliberal Reason,’ was published in Perspectives on Politics Read more…
Raphaël Liogier is a philosopher and sociologist. He is a professor at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence and teaches at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He currently lives in New York and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Council for European Studies. His major works include Heart of Maleness: Read more…
Arnaud Mentré is the Consul General of France in Boston. Prior to his assignment in Boston, Arnaud Mentré was Deputy Assistant Secretary for North America in the Bureau of the Americas at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (2015-2018), responsible for bilateral relationships with the U.S. and Canada. Arnaud Read more…
Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard. His special research interests include archaic Greek literature and oral traditions. His ongoing goal is to integrate his research with collaborative as well as Read more…
Alexia Pastré obtained her BSc in Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and then continued onto a MSc in the same field at ETH Zurich. She is currently pursuing her master’s thesis at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health where her research focuses on better understanding Read more…
Anne Plaisance received a Master’s Degree in International Trade from Paris I University, Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France and a harp diploma from the Aubervilliers-La Courneuve Dance & Music Conservatory. She worked in Poland for major advertisement agencies and opened her own company in 2005, while also being the Communications Director in Read more…
Nicolas Prevelakis is the Assistant Director of Curricular Development at the Center for Hellenic Studies and a Lecturer on Social Studies. He has a first Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) and a second one in Political Sociology from Boston University. He is Read more…
Adam Sandel is a philosopher, award-winning teacher at Harvard, athlete in multiple sports, and three-time Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups including “Most Pull-Ups in One Minute.” Sandel has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and a YouTube video with over 2.6 million views. He is the author of the The Place Read more…
T.M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He received his B.A. from Princeton in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Harvard. In between, he studied for a year at Oxford as a Fulbright Fellow. He taught at Princeton from 1966 before coming to Harvard in Read more…
Mark Schiefsky is C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He is a historian of philosophy and science in the ancient world. Most of his work is concerned with the ways in which philosophy interacted with science in Greco-Roman antiquity: how philosophical theories shaped and were Read more…
Theodora Skeadas is the Executive Director of Cambridge Local First, a non-profit that promotes a local economy community. She is also an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she works on issues of cyber security, and she works as an independent political consultant and campaign manager She recently graduated from Read more…
Michael is a physician who completed his residency in Preventive Medicine at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and trained in epidemiology for two years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta before coming to Boston. His primary research interests are in the areas of tobacco Read more…
Bonnie Talbert (btalbert@fas.harvard.edu) is a Lecturer and Assistant Director of Studies in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy in 2009 from Columbia University, where she taught Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum. She has also taught courses on existentialism, applied ethics, Read more…
Don Tontiplaphol teaches political theory and the philosophy of social science at Harvard. His research interests center on Aristotelian thought in general, and on practical reason, intentional action, and democratic theory. He also has interests in Catholic theology and the history of science. As an undergraduate, he studied philosophy and Read more…
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies, Harvard University Terry earned a PhD with distinction in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University, an MSc in Political Theory Research as a Michael von Clemm Fellow at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, Read more…